Story
The sea said: “This is mine, and I’m taking it”
More than thirty years ago NASA launched a satellite to understand the behavior of the oceans. Its observations confirmed an...
No one arrived in time
I didn’t know how to anticipate it. On the afternoon of October 29, 2024, I was in my village, an...
Paiporta swept away
On the afternoon of Tuesday, October 29th heavy rains started to fall across Spain’s south and eastern provinces. The rapid...
Chronicle of a catastrophe foretold
A relatively quiet summer in the Iberian Peninsula in terms of extreme forest fires, may have lulled Portugal into a...
‘Lumes’ by Adra Pallón
“That lume (fire) which once lived inside homes and was synonymous with life, is now used from the point of...
Facing Fire
Whether you’re aware of it or not, there has been a seismic shift in the goals of modern European firefighting....
The Open Wounds of Pedrógão Grande
The fire storm’s intensity melted skin off hands and feet, liquified glass windows and reduced standing signs to puddles of...
Fuelling a Mega Fire
Mega fires don’t evolve without warning. We sow their seeds, watch them grow and are then forced to stand back...